ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Likelyhood

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Likelyhood is a noun meaning Obsolete spelling of likelihood, now a common misspelling.

Meaning

Obsolete spelling of likelihood, now a common misspelling.

Example Sentences

But when their eyes fell on R’har, it was plain these warriors were trying to judge his likelyhood of survival, subtly eyeing each other, each weighing his own chances of winning her, should R’har die.
Moꝛeouer, enuy and deſpite against Ieſus had ſo blinded the myndes of the pꝛieſtes and the Phariſeis, that it did not ſuffice their malice to put Ieſus to death, but they fel in deuice alſo howe to make Lazarus away, againſt whom they coulde lay no colour oꝛ likelyhood of any fault.
If there be who yet doubt, I referr them eſpecially to that Declaration of July 1645. concerning this matter. Againſt which teſtimonies, likelyhoods, evidences, and apparent actions of his own, being ſo abundant, the bare denyall of one man, though with imprecation, cannot in any reaſon countervaile.
But to ſcuffle and combat with them in their own dark Caverns, let the univerſall Matter be a heterogeneall Chaos of Confuſion, variouſly moved and as it happens: I ſay there is no likelyhood that this mad Motion would ever amount to ſo wiſe a Contrivance as is diſcernable even in the generall Delineations of Nature.

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Related dictionary entries include tendancy, certainity, possiblities, feasability, oppertunity, oppurtunity.

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